Re: PADI logged dives card 25? 50? 100? how to get it ?

Alasdair Allan wrote:
>
> Jim.Greenlee@cc.gatech.edu wrote:
> > mandm@flashnet.it wrote:
> > > Please tell me how can I get certified for my past logged dives how
> > > can I get a card.
> >
> > Just out of curiousity, why exactly do you want this card? Aren't the
> > actual logbook entries sufficient to document your diving experience?
>
> Out of curiosity, whats the point of logbooks? I don't keep one anymore,
> having gotten bored (and lazy) after a few hundred dives, so why do people
> still bother? Its always seemed a bit odd to me...!? Or am I just lazier
> than most people about keeping documentation?

Boy- there's a lot of curiosity around here.

A) Indoctrination by the certification process and instructor has a
lot to do with why dive shops continue to sell special binders and books
and pages and c-card holders and water resistant paper that smudges like
mad.

B) It is a great way to pass the surface interval if sex is out of
the question.

C) It is a great record to refer to when someone here asks what the
bottom of the surface temperature is of off Nasau- not in July but
August... and lookeee there- you did a trip from July 29 thru August 4!

D) It is a good way to record what thermal protection you used for
what temp water in case you are a rubber-suit clothes horse like my S.O.

E) It is a good way for those described in (D) above to remember the
positioning and quantity of their lead.

F) It is a great place to put those dive shop rubber stamper things
so the ink will smudge all over the rest of the book.

G) It makes excellent reading for the Doctor at the hyperbaric
chamber if you're frothing too much to speak.

H) If you're a Divemaster, the special binder and waterproof pages
keep coffee from staining your progress towards:

I) Instructor- great for hot chicks to write their numbers or slip
their cabin keys into the way cool logo binder.

I think that about covers it.

--
Doc _(:)0

"I'm hiding in Honduras, I'm a desperate man,
Send Lawyers, Guns & Money...The sh*t has hit the fan"
-Warren Zevon

Robert Adelman wrote:
> Alasdair Allan wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, whats the point of logbooks? I don't keep one
> > anymore, having gotten bored (and lazy) after a few hundred dives...
>
[ snip ]
>
> I) Instructor- great for hot chicks to write their numbers or slip
> their cabin keys into the way cool logo binder.
>
> I think that about covers it.

Oh, thats alright then...

Al.

Robert \"Doc\" Adelman <lawyers-guns-money@att.net> wrote in message news:<3F204843.8C821DE5@att.net>...

> Boy- there's a lot of curiosity around here.
>
> A) Indoctrination by the certification process and instructor has a
> lot to do with why dive shops continue to sell special binders and books
> and pages and c-card holders and water resistant paper that smudges like
> mad.

Nah, that's for Clueless Newbies <tm> with less than a few thousand
dives.

For the seasoned <salted if you wish>, you can

(a) print your personalized log-pages (Microshaft WORD will do a
pretty good job -- you can even have your own jpeg pic on
your own personalized logbook pages); or

(b) have your Citizen HyperAqualand do the logging, including a
detailed plot of your dive profile (depth and temp); or

(c) have a ReefNet Sensus Pro do the same (with a built-in log
page to enter notes) and save up to 100 detailed profiles
instead of only about 6 by the HyperAqualand; or

(d) lots of other more expensive and less useful gadgets/toys for
such logging and downloading, such as

(i) the Cockroach (aka Cochran) Mike-Flame-Customer-
and-Hide-Defect computer or

(ii) the UWATEC (aka Let-U-Get-Bend-rather-than-Recall)
computer having a Court Verdict of "Conspiracy, Slander,
and Outrage" for framing its employees for wanting to
reveal its defect and issue a recall (1998), and pending
Court Case (Nov 2003) of 4 bent divers on 4 separate
lawsuits on the SAME COMPUTER whose defects were
known in 1996, but not recalled until 2003 and not
before the FIFTH lawsuit and an attorney had threatened
a Class-Action suit if UWATEC didn't issue a recall notice ...

(e) Many other alternative ways and means. )


>
> B) It is a great way to pass the surface interval if sex is out of
> the question.

Only for the Clueless Newbies <tm> doing unimaginative sex.

>
> C) It is a great record to refer to when someone here asks what the
> bottom of the surface temperature is of off Nasau- not in July but
> August... and lookeee there- you did a trip from July 29 thru August 4!

Or refresh your memory on spelling Nassau, as in July 1994, with
UW pix of Dan blowing bubbles ascending from 485 fsw on his daily,
recreational air dives, of which I was his SOB. :o)
>
> D)
> E)
> F)
....
> I)
>
> I think that about covers it.

Nah, Doc. You haven't even covered the tip of the iceberg, or the
first 50 feet of a wall dropping to 5000 feet.

-- Bob.

Reef Fish wrote:
>
> Robert \"Doc\" Adelman <lawyers-guns-money@att.net> wrote in message news:<3F204843.8C821DE5@att.net>...
>
> > Boy- there's a lot of curiosity around here.
> >
> > A) Indoctrination by the certification process and instructor has a
> > lot to do with why dive shops continue to sell special binders and books
> > and pages and c-card holders and water resistant paper that smudges like
> > mad.
>
> Nah, that's for Clueless Newbies <tm> with less than a few thousand
> dives.
>
> For the seasoned <salted if you wish>, you can
>
> (a) print your personalized log-pages (Microshaft WORD will do a
> pretty good job -- you can even have your own jpeg pic on
> your own personalized logbook pages); or
>
> (b) have your Citizen HyperAqualand do the logging, including a
> detailed plot of your dive profile (depth and temp); or
>
> (c) have a ReefNet Sensus Pro do the same (with a built-in log
> page to enter notes) and save up to 100 detailed profiles
> instead of only about 6 by the HyperAqualand; or
>
> (d) lots of other more expensive and less useful gadgets/toys for
> such logging and downloading, such as
>
> (i) the Cockroach (aka Cochran) Mike-Flame-Customer-
> and-Hide-Defect computer or
>
> (ii) the UWATEC (aka Let-U-Get-Bend-rather-than-Recall)
> computer having a Court Verdict of "Conspiracy, Slander,
> and Outrage" for framing its employees for wanting to
> reveal its defect and issue a recall (1998), and pending
> Court Case (Nov 2003) of 4 bent divers on 4 separate
> lawsuits on the SAME COMPUTER whose defects were
> known in 1996, but not recalled until 2003 and not
> before the FIFTH lawsuit and an attorney had threatened
> a Class-Action suit if UWATEC didn't issue a recall notice ...
>
> (e) Many other alternative ways and means. )


> > C) It is a great record to refer to when someone here asks what the
> > bottom of the surface temperature is of off Nasau- not in July but
> > August... and lookeee there- you did a trip from July 29 thru August 4!
>
> Or refresh your memory on spelling Nassau,
>
> -- Bob.

O.K., then how about "NASA"? Is that how it's spelt?

I still have my Bend-o-Matic waiting in the garage. All this new stuff
frightens me. Too many batteries, not enough spring powered wind up
stuff anymore.



--
Doc _(:)0

"I'm hiding in Honduras, I'm a desperate man,
Send Lawyers, Guns & Money...The sh*t has hit the fan"
-Warren Zevon